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FDNY and AAFE team up for fire training exercices in the East Village
The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) was on the scene on two consecutive days this past summer at a tenement building located at 406 East 10th St. in Manhattan's East Village. But firefighters were not responding to an emergency. This was a training exercise at a vacant building AAFE is working to modernize and preserve as a permanent source of affordable housing.
AAFE begins to transform 3 East Village buildings into affordable cooperatives
AAFE, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), project partners, elected officials and local residents celebrated the start of construction today for a three-building rehabilitation project that will create affordable homeownership opportunities for 44 families in Manhattan’s East Village.
AAFE's strong record as a provider of affordable housing
Fact Check: AAFE's response to an irresponsible and reckless story in "Documented."
Next steps at Forsyth Plaza, thanks to Neighborhoods Now initiative
AAFE is teaming up with Think!Chinatown to develop a proposal to adapt Forsyth Street Plaza into an open-air market supporting local Chinatown businesses and cultural groups.
AAFE statement on anti-Asian violence and hate crimes
AAFE calls on elected officials at all levels of government, and our partners in immigrant and communities of color, to condemn anti-Asian racism and hate crimes – and to invest in community-centered programs and infrastructure for creating safe, inclusive, and healthy communities.
In appreciation of Corky Lee
Corky Lee called himself the, "undisputed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate." He was also the unofficial documentarian of AAFE's founding in Chinatown 47 years ago. Almost all of the historical photos you have seen over the years on our website, in videos and in print publications were taken by Corky, when he was a young man just out of college.